If All You See…

By William Teach May 28, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a field that should be replaced with carbon pollution sucking trees, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is IOTW Report, with a post on Gov Gretchen Whitmer’s cancelled contact tracing contract irregularities.

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Dem Anguish: Vast Majority Who’ve Died From Coronavirus Did So In Democrat Districts

By William Teach May 28, 2020 – 10:30 am

CNN is running around saying all these deaths didn’t have to happen, and making it racist

They didn’t all have to die — a moment of reflection as US Covid deaths reach 100,000

The first tragedy of America’s bleak coronavirus milestone is that 100,000 people didn’t have to die. The second is that no one knows how many more will perish before the pandemic fades.

The desperate toll passed into six figures on Wednesday afternoon: 100,000 victims, who were living Americans several months ago, when the viciously infectious virus made landfall. The landmark is a story of lost mothers, fathers, grandparents, siblings, spouses and even children. Families are shattered, and the dying expire alone. They can’t even be mourned owing to social distancing — one of Covid-19’s cruelest impositions.

The virus has been disproportionately infecting communities of color. Black Americans represent 13.4% of the American population, according to the US Census Bureau, but counties with higher black populations accounted for more than half of all Covid-19 cases and almost 60% of deaths as of mid-April, a study by epidemiologists and clinicians found. The virus has also exploited monetary divides, as infections at meat-packing plants show, while many white-collar workers work from home.

Obviously, they go on to slam President Trump, while ignoring the reactions from Democratic Party governors. And then there’s this

Pew report breaks down COVID-19 impact by congressional district — Dems won’t like the results

A new Pew Research Center report shows the death toll in the United States from COVID-19 is “heavily concentrated” in Democratic congressional districts.

According to the analysis, more than half of all COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. occurred in just 44 (approximately 10 percent of) congressional districts, and 41 of those 44 hardest-hit districts are represented by Democrats, while only three are represented by Republicans.

“A new Pew Research Center analysis of data on official reports of COVID-19 deaths, collected by the John Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering, finds that, as of last week, nearly a quarter of all the deaths in the United States attributed to the coronavirus have been in just 12 congressional districts – all located in New York City and represented by Democrats in Congress. Of the more than 92,000 Americans who had died of COVID-19 as of May 20 (the date that the data in this analysis was collected), nearly 75,000 were in Democratic congressional districts,” Pew reported.

Apparently, Democrats hate people, especially minorities.

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Your Fault: ‘Climate Change’ Could Maybe Possibly Reduce Snow Storms In The Future

By William Teach May 28, 2020 – 8:12 am

First off, that’s what can happen during a Holocene warm period, so, there’s no witchcraft actually involved. Second, most of their other prognostications haven’t worked out so well. Remember then one about kids not knowing what snow will look like, which they tried to memory-hole? Third, climate cultists are now blaming big snow storms and cold weather on greenhouse gases.

Fourth, it’s still all your fault for that burger you ate while drinking a carbon pollution infused beer

Winter ‘will lose much of its punch’: Climate change may diminish big snowstorms in the US

Big snowstorms might be few and far between later this century as the climate warms, a new study released Monday suggests.

In fact, global warming is expected to affect the frequency, intensity and size of snowstorms across much of the U.S., according to the study.

“If we do little to mitigate climate change, the winter season will lose much of its punch in the future,” said study lead author Walker Ashley, a Northern Illinois University meteorologist.

“The snow season will start later and end earlier,” Ashley said. “Generally, what we consider an abnormally mild winter now, in terms of the number and intensity of snowstorms, will be the harshest of winters late this century.”

What happens if we do all the things the Cult of Climastrology wants and this still happens, because CO2 is not the control knob and the majority of warming is natural? Will they say “oops, our bad, guess we were wrong”?

Ashley and his study co-authors looked at computer model simulations of what the climate will be later this century to reach their conclusions. “There will be fewer snowstorms, less overall precipitation that falls as snow and almost a complete removal of snow events in the southern tier of the United States,” he said.

Sigh.

Milder temperatures would not only reduce the number of snowstorms each year, scientists said, but the warmth would also reduce the size of the snowstorms when they do happen.

You know what happens now, right? As the Warmists pimp this stuff we’ll see more snow storms. Which, of course, they will blame on your carbon footprint.

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Governors Push Wearing Face Masks, Say They Are Cool

By William Teach May 28, 2020 – 7:58 am

Of course, they aren’t cool enough for the Democrat governors to actually wear them themselves

(Breitbart) Democrat governors are encouraging residents to wear masks during the coronavirus pandemic, describing it as a symbol or a sign of virtue.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) said Tuesday that wearing a mask during the coronavirus pandemic signified “strength.”

“A face covering signifies strength and compassion for others,” Cooper said. “Wearing one shows that you care about other people’s health.”

Cooper also expressed the sentiment on Twitter.

Every time I’ve seen him on TV he has not been wearing one

On Tuesday, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said that wearing a mask was “cool” and suggested he wanted to sign an executive order that said, “Wearing a mask is officially cool.”

“Wearing a mask is now cool,” Cuomo said. “I believe it’s cool. … Wearing a mask is officially cool.”

That link goes to a NY Times video of Cuomo talking about wearing a mask while he’s hold a mask and not wearing a mask. Nor is the person doing sign language (Cuomo also has a world killing water bottle, but that’s a different post)

Dr. Anthony Fauci on Wednesday told CNN that wearing a mask was a “symbol.”

“I want to protect myself and protect others, and also because I want to make it be a symbol for people to see that that’s the kind of thing you should be doing,” Fauci said, even though he reminded viewers that masks were “not 100 percent effective.”

The vast majority of masks people are wearing won’t stop the common cold, much less COVID-19. Even ones with filters won’t do it. Wearing one is a symbol. And, if you watch most governors when they are speaking they aren’t actually wearing one, despite telling everyone to wear one. Gretchen Whitmer, Gavin Newsome, etc., no masks.

“What it presents and projects is leadership,” Joe Biden said, berating President Trump for not wearing a mask. “Presidents are supposed to lead, not engage in folly and be falsely masculine.”

The mask Joe was wearing wouldn’t stop Coronavirus, either.

 

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We’re In An Unprecedented Hotcoldwetdry Experiment Or Something

By William Teach May 27, 2020 – 3:30 pm

Do members of the doomsday Cult of Climastrology really think this is a good argument, one that will get people to say “well, sure, let’s destroy economies around the world, lock me up at home, and leave me on the government dole”?

We Are in an Unprecedented Climate Experiment

The coronavirus pandemic has frozen the whole world in place as we try to keep ourselves and each other safe. We’re in the middle of an unintentional global experiment that has shut down entire nations and industries. That has put a spotlight on how our personal choices and global systems affect climate change and what we need to do to flatten the curve of emissions.

The coronavirus lockdowns have triggered what is expected to be the largest annual drop in carbon emissions on record: an 8 percent decline globally, amounting to 2.6 billion metric tons of carbon by the end of 2020, according to the International Energy Agency. As we stay at home—especially in developed countries like the United States, which has the highest carbon emission rate per capita—consumer demand for fossil fuels has plummeted. Renewables have eaten oil and gas’s lunch when it comes to rates of energy use. Oil futures went negative in March, after supply began to outweigh demand and available storage. Air travel fell by 96 percent between early March and mid-April (though air traffic fell by only 50 percent, because airlines continued to fly mostly empty planes). Air travel is likely to remain unpopular for the foreseeable future. In other words, quarantine has shrunk our carbon footprint significantly.

But drastic cuts that came from upending our daily lives are still not enough to curb climate change. Even with this year’s unprecedented emissions cutbacks, atmospheric carbon level and global temperatures are likely going to increase again this year. Today’s global warming is the result of past choices: greenhouse gasses stick around and heat up the planet over decades, and the atmosphere can’t create an immediate feedback loop that incorporates our recent cuts. This April was still the warmest on record. According to the United Nations, in order to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial temperatures (the target of the Paris climate accord, which the United States withdrew from last year), human beings would have to cut emission by 7.6 percent every year for the next decade.

And cult members wonder why skeptics aren’t willing to give an inch even on things we would actually agree on. Because they will want more and more, constantly moving the goal posts.

That means we need structural change on an international scale. It’s now clear that meaningful emissions reductions won’t come from personal actions alone or even unilateral change from conscientious countries. But we can use this moment to consider a new path. There is no status quo anymore: the pandemic has forced us, on individual and collective levels, to rethink work, commutes, industry, recreation, supply chains, and urban planning. As we rebuild, we have a chance to do better. Individual actions can still be a big part of creating market and political pressures to reduce emissions. But we also need policy that makes individual action easy and enforces reductions in carbon use in major industries.

In other words, the end of capitalism, pure government control of the economy and your life. They want to limit your ability to travel. Where you can go, what modes of transportation you can use. How much energy you are allowed to use at home. Which you’ll essentially be stuck in. Is this really a winning argument, saying that the current Bat Soup virus lockdown, which includes some serious authoritarian restrictions, is just a start?

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If All You See…

By William Teach May 27, 2020 – 1:00 pm

…is a desert flooded due to extreme weather from carbon pollution, you might just be a Warmist

The blog of the day is Don Surber, with a post on the great American comeback.

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Apparently, There Are Millions Of Racist Amy Cooper’s In Liberal Cities

By William Teach May 27, 2020 – 10:30 am

You know the story, right? Of course, both people involved were, let’s generously call them assholes (he threatened her prior to filming)

Millions of Amy Coopers They could be your boss or your neighbor or your teacher, if disturbed on the wrong day.

Amy Cooper knew exactly what she was doing. This Memorial Day, she unleashed her dog in a part of Central Park where dogs are supposed to be on leashes. As it tore through the planting, she encountered a black male bird-watcher who asked her to follow the rules lest they scare the birds away.

What occurred next — recorded by the bird-watcher, 57-year-old Christian Cooper (no relation), on his phone from several feet away — was one of the most malicious and deliberate performances of victimization I have ever seen.

After demanding that he stop recording, Amy takes several purposeful steps in his direction. When he refuses, and asks that she not come any closer, she then, in a tone that can only be described as whiny and affronted — wait, no, more like the audible version of a child sticking out their tongue in defiance — threatens to call the police.

“Please, call the police,” Christian says, calmly.

“I’m going to tell them that there is an African-American man threatening my life,” she says, rolling her neck and raising her eyebrows almost gleefully. She’s wearing a mask, and though you can’t see her mouth, the “You’ll be sorry” smirk reaches her eyes.

Whoops! Looks like Adrienne Green forgot to mention the part about him threatening her before filming. And, one just has to wonder what else went on prior to filming. We’ve seen too many instances where what was on film was manipulated to get a response on film. Or, it could be that she’s just an ahole, right? Regardless, it is interesting that Adrienne, who, yes, is black, is saying that there are millions of these types of people in liberal run cities.

Also, it’s interesting that it is seemingly OK for Adrienne to make this kind of generalization, which would be deemed racist if a white person said something similar about black people.

It’s also interesting that she hasn’t written anything at New York magazine nor her Twitter about the racist, supremacist comment Joe Biden recently made.

“I’m not a racist. I did not mean to harm that man in any way,” she told CNN later on (she was fired from her job at investment firm Franklin Templeton and has voluntarily relinquished custody of her pup). Amy joins a sorority of may-I-speak-to-your-manager ladies, the ones trying to huff their way into grocery stores without a mask, the “Karens,” as social media has dubbed them. The severity of the instances varies (the spectrum of entitlement isn’t limited to calling to cops), but they’re connected to the same playbook. Play the victim whenever they feel a person of color is intruding in “their” space — in a park, in a neighborhood, in the spotlight — cocky and certain that things will work out for them by privilege and design.

That whole diatribe would be considered racist if said against a black person, would it not? People can’t have things both way. But, I do enjoy her calling millions of Democrat voting women in Democrat run cities racists.

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Health Professional Groups Call For “Green” Recovery From Coronavirus

By William Teach May 27, 2020 – 8:12 am

One question not asked is “how many members of these groups agree with the statement?”

World health leaders urge green recovery from coronavirus crisis

Doctors and medical professionals from around the globe have called on world leaders to ensure a green recovery from the coronavirus crisis that takes account of air pollution and climate breakdown.

More than 200 organisations representing at least 40 million health workers – making up about half of the global medical workforce – have signed an open letter to the G20 leaders and their chief medical advisers, pointing to the 7 million premature deaths to which air pollution contributes each year around the world.

Chief medical officers and chief scientific advisers must be directly involved in designing the stimulus packages now under way, the letter urges, in order to ensure they include considerations of public health and environmental concerns. They say public health systems should be strengthened, and they warn of how environmental degradation could help to unleash future diseases.

The signatories also want reforms to fossil fuel subsidies, with public support shifted towards renewable energy, which they say would make for cleaner air, cut greenhouse gas emissions and help to spur economic growth of nearly $100tn in the next three decades.

You know, if they staid with real environmental concerns, like air pollution, that might have been fine. But, no, they have to jump into fossil fuels and ‘climate change’. One has to wonder when all these rich doctors will give up their own big carbon footprints with their fancy, 6 and 8 cylinder vehicles, their golfing, their fossil fueled vacations, having 2nd homes, having big 1st homes, and so forth.

Air quality in 1st world nations is mostly pretty good after air quality laws originating in the 1970’s. Interestingly, the places with the worst air quality in 1st world nations tends to occur in cities run by ‘climate change’ believers.

Some countries are considering a green recovery from the crisis by attaching stern conditions to any bailouts for fossil fuel-dependent industries, such as aviation, and by pumping money into infrastructure that reduces greenhouse gases, from broadband for remote working to better cycle lanes and electric vehicle charging points. A recent study from Oxford University found this would yield more jobs and a better return on public investment than returning to business as usual.

“Health professionals are at the frontlines of this emergency, and we are seeing the immense loss of lives because of acting too late,” said Miguel Jorge, the president of the World Medical Association. “We know now more than ever that healthy lives depend on a healthy planet. As we walk on the road to recovery, we need to build a system that will protect us from further damage. We need a healthy and green recovery.”

OK, we can run hospitals and the overpriced doctors offices on unicorn dust, OK? Alright, we’ll let them only run on solar and wind. So, they can make coffee, and that’s about it. When they practice what they preach, I’ll consider it. Instead, they want to force Other People via dictatorial government.

BTW, when are they giving up their big salaries? They do know that green policies will take lots and lots of their money, right? Or, do they think they will be excluded?

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North Carolina Gym Owners To File Suit Over COVID-19 Restrictions

By William Teach May 27, 2020 – 7:53 am

I said this would probably happen this week, and now it is

‘We’re smart people’: Gym owners to file lawsuit against Phase 2 restrictions

Local gym owners plan to file a lawsuit against Gov. Roy Cooper on Wednesday.

When Cooper laid out a three-phase plan last month to resume business and social activities statewide amid the pandemic, fitness centers were part of the second part of the plan. But when the governor actually moved the state into Phase 2 on May 22, gyms were left out, forcing them closed for at least five additional weeks.

Many gym owners say being kept closed is unconstitutional and harmful, not helpful.

Robin Gardner-Smith and Ed Smith, who own about a dozen Fit4Life health clubs across the state, are among the plaintiffs in the pending lawsuit. They maintain that the state’s restrictions are unconstitutional, violating their right to earn a living.

Cooper and NCDHHS Secretary Dr. Mandy Cohen said they’re trying to prevent a spike in the number of cases, but gym owners say it’s not fair to pick and choose which businesses can open.

There never really was a reason given by the governor as to why gyms would be excluded from opening, other than them being inside. Yet, restaurants are inside. Same with getting your hair cut and colored. I supposed they’re thinking “well, people sweat, and it gets everywhere.” I get why bars and nightclubs are closed. People will be way too close to each other. For places like theaters, how would that work? The only thing I can think of is allowing 1 person on each end of each center row, and only one in each side row, so people do not cross near each other. Then having to clean each seat after each showing. Would people come? I’ve been to day matinees where there were only 3-4 people for big movies.

Regardless, with gyms you could restrict to 25% capacity. Make sure people are wiping up, which they should be doing anyhow. Disallowing people spotting, because they would be too close. Some folks will just have to lift a bit lower, eh? Close off half the treadmills/ellipticals/bikes. It can be done. And, remember, people who go to gyms tend to be more healthy. Everyone would just need to be cautious, just like at everywhere else that is open.

Hell, I’d wear a mask if necessary to be able to go again.

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Why Do Democrats Want Lockdowns To Continue? A Bad Economy Is Good For Their Election Chances

By William Teach May 26, 2020 – 4:21 pm

We all know this. Democrats are unintentionally saying it

Surprise?

(Politico) In early April, Jason Furman, a top economist in the Obama administration and now a professor at Harvard, was speaking via Zoom to a large bipartisan group of top officials from both parties. The economy had just been shut down, unemployment was spiking, and some policymakers were predicting an era worse than the Great Depression. The economic carnage seemed likely to doom President Donald Trump’s chances at reelection.

Furman, tapped to give the opening presentation, looked into his screen of poorly lit boxes of frightened wonks and made a startling claim.

“We are about to see the best economic data we’ve seen in the history of this country,” he said.

Furman’s counterintuitive pitch has caused some Democrats, especially Obama alumni, around Washington to panic. “This is my big worry,” said a former Obama White House official who is still close to the former president. Asked about the level of concern among top party officials, he said, “It’s high — high, high, high, high.”

And top policy officials on the Biden campaign are preparing for a fall economic debate that might look very different than the one predicted at the start of the pandemic in March. “They are very much aware of this,” said an informal adviser.

Democrats want a bad economy. Or, at least a tepid economy.

The scenario would be a major long-term problem for any president. But before that reality sets in, Trump could be poised to benefit from the dramatic numbers produced during the partial rebound phase that is likely to coincide with the four months before November.

That realization has many Democrats spooked.

“In absolute terms, the economy will look historically terrible come November,” said Kenneth Baer, a Democratic strategist who worked in a senior role at the Office of Management and Budget under Obama. “But relative to the depths of April, it will be on an upswing — 12 percent unemployment, for example, is better than 20, but historically terrible. On Election Day, we Democrats need voters to ask themselves, ‘Are you better off than you were four years ago?’ Republicans need voters to ask themselves, ‘Are you better off than you were four months ago?’”

Democrats are praying for the economic picture to look poor to gain political power, and they do not care who gets hurt to make it happen.

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